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Insects and Flowers
The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian
David Brafman and Stephanie Schrader
Beautiful details from Merian’s book
Metamorphosis of the Insects of
Suriname are reproduced in this
delightful gift book.
52 pages, 4½ x 6¼ inches
22 color illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-929-4, pa
$9.95 T, UK £6.99, 2008
Leonardo da Vinci
The Mechanics of Man
Martin Clayton and Ron Philo
This fascinating volume examines
anatomical drawings by Da Vinci and
includes translations of his meticulous
notes and commentary on the accuracy
of the renderings.
160 pages, 8½ x 12¼ inches
88 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-020-9, hc, $29.95 T
2010
NAO
Looking East
Rubens’s Encounter with Asia
Edited by Stephanie Schrader
With contributions by Burglind Jungmann,
Kim Young-Jae, and Christine Göttler
Scholars explore the mystery that surrounds
Man in Korean Costume, one of Rubens’s
most intriguing drawings.
128 pages, 7 x 9 inches
47 color and 5 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-131-2, pa
$20.00 X, UK £13.99
ISBN 978-1-60606-159-6,
Ebook through the iBookstore, $9.99
2013
Master Drawings Close-Up
Julian Brooks
The techniques of master draftsmen are
explored through enlarged details of fortyfive
of their most spectacular drawings.
124 pages, 9½ x 9½ inches
90 color and 5 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-019-3, pa, $24.95 T
2010
NAO
Rembrandt Drawings
Seymour Slive
In this gorgeous volume one of the greatest
living experts on the subject explores
Rembrandt’s extraordinary achievements
as a draftsman by scrutinizing more than
150 drawings.
260 pages, 8 x 10 inches
197 color and 46 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-976-8, hc, $49.95 T
2009
NAO
Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro
Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome
Julian Brooks
With essays by Robert Williams,
Peter Lukehart, and Christina Strunck
This lovely volume presents the series of
twenty drawings by Federico Zuccaro of his
older brother Taddeo’s life as a struggling
artist in sixteenth-century Rome and examines
the role of the copying of masterworks
in the training of young Renaissance artists.
144 pages, 9¾ x 10 inches
95 color and 60 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-902-7, hc
$50.00 X, UK £35.00, 2007
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Getty Center
Concert of Wills
Making the Getty Center
This acclaimed documentary traces
the building of the Getty Center.
“A fine and painstaking work of art.”
—New York Times
100 minutes, color
ISBN 978-0-89236-741-2
DVD format, $24.95 T
1998
Going to the Getty
J.otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh
“Seriously witty.”
—New York Times
Ages three and up
32 pages, 8½ x 12 inches
32 color illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-493-0, hc
$17.95 T, UK £12.95, 1997
Inside the Getty
Edited by William Hackman
and Mark Greenberg
This is a behind-the-scenes look—including
public places and secret spaces—
at the J. Paul Getty Trust’s four programs:
the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty
Research Institute, the Getty Conservation
Institute, and Getty Foundation.
184 pages, 5½ x 9½ inches
306 color and 40 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-911-9, pa
$14.95 T, UK £10.99, 2008
The J. Paul Getty Museum
and Its Collections
A Museum for the New Century
John Walsh and Deborah Gribbon
This is an illuminating text about
J. Paul Getty and his passion for art,
with archival and recently commissioned
photo graphs, provides a biography
of the Museum’s bene factor and a
history of the Museum’s collections and
the buildings that have housed them.
288 pages, 8¾ x 11 7 ⁄8 inches
200 color and 50 duotone illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-476-3, pa
$40.00 X, UK £26.00, 1997
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Handbook of the Collection
Eighth Edition
This gorgeous new edition of the handbook
features over 350 of the museum’s
most beloved objects, including a number
of exciting new acquisitions—from the
Gillion manuscript and Rembrandt’s
Laughing to Robert Mapplethorpe’s Self
Portrait and Édouard Manet’s Spring.
392 pages, 5½ x 8 3 ⁄8 inches
374 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-449-8, pa
$19.95 T, UK £12.99, 2015
Making Architecture
The Getty Center
Preface by Harold M. Williams
Essays by Richard Meier, Stephen D.
Rountree, and Ada Louise Huxtable
176 pages, 10 x 10 inches
109 color, 149 duotone,
and 29 b/w illustrations, 1 color foldout
ISBN 978-0-89236-463-3, pa, $55.00 X
1997
COBEE
Plants in the Getty’s
Central Garden
Jim Duggan
Photographs by Becky Cohen
Foreword by Robert Irwin
A guide to the growing habits and
characteristics of nearly four hundred
varieties of plants.
164 pages, 5½ x 8¾ inches
373 color illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-714-6, flexibind
$19.95 X, UK £14.99, 2004
Seeing the Getty Center
Collections, Buildings, and Gardens
The three volumes in this handsome
boxed set provide a visual tour of the
treasures at the Getty Center.
192 pages, 6 x 6 inches
227 color illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-975-1, 3-volume boxed set
$19.95 T, UK £18.95, 2009
Seeing the Getty Collections
at the Getty Center
Foreword by David Bomford
This small book—full of details from the
collections—simulates the experience of
visiting the J. Paul Getty Museum and the
delight of discovering similarities among
otherwise disparate works.
64 pages, 6 x 6 inches
70 color illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-962-1, pa
$10.95 T, UK £8.99, 2009
Getty Villa
As I See It
The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty
Reissued with new illustrations, this
autobiography recounts the life of an
American legend and the founder
of the museum that bears his name.
360 pages, 6 x 9 inches
64 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-700-9, pa
$19.95 T, UK £14.95, 2003
Gardens and Plants of
the Getty Villa
Patrick Bowe and Michael D. DeHart
This beautiful guide documents each
plant used in the Getty Villa gardens
and describes the role of gardens in
ancient Rome.
160 pages, 5 5 ⁄8 x 8 7 ⁄8 inches
225 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-049-0, flexibind
$19.95 T, UK £14.99, 2011
The Getty Villa
Marion True and Jorge Silvetti
This book presents a lively history of the
J. Paul Getty Museum and its antiquities
collections, from its growth as a small
museum in Mr. Getty’s house in Malibu to
its first home in the Villa building and
now to its third incarnation as a museum
exclusively devoted to antiquities.
256 pages, 9¾ x 10½ inches
250 color illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-838-9, hc
$65.00 S, UK £45.00
ISBN 978-0-89236-841-9, pa
$39.95 X, UK £29.99, 2006
Guide to the Getty Villa
This handy volume introduces
visitors to the renovated site and
the antiquities collection on display.
132 pages, 5½ x 9½ inches
172 color and 20 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-828-0, pa
$12.95 X, UK £8.50, 2006
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Handbook of the
Antiquities Collection
Revised Edition
Edited by Kenneth Lapatin and Karol Wight
This guide showcases ancient Greek
vases, monumental marble sculptures,
Greek and Roman gems, and Hellenistic
silverware, jewelry, and glass in
the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection.
264 pages, 5½ x 9½ inches
200 color and 12 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-998-0, pa
$19.95 S, UK £13.99, 2010
The Joys of Collecting
J. Paul Getty
Oil baron and museum founder J. Paul
Getty recounts his passion for collecting art.
80 pages, 5 3 ⁄8 x 8½ inches
15 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-087-2, pa
$9.95 T, UK £8.99, 2011
Seeing the Getty Villa
This souvenir book captures the visual
delights of the renovated Getty Villa.
More than seventy color photographs
artfully record the stunning art, architecture,
and grounds.
64 pages, 6 x 6 inches
70 color illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-833-4, pa
$10.95 T, UK £8.99, 2006
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